Abstract

MARQUES, Vera Regina Beltrão  and  FARIAS, Fabiana Costa de Senna Ávila. “Façamos dessa gente um elemento seguro do nosso progresso material e moral”: a inspeção médico-escolar no Paraná dos anos 1920. Educ. Rev. [online]. 2010, vol.26, n.01, pp.287-302. ISSN 0102-4698.

The main axis of Education in Paraná is based on the necessity of retrieving the native man (half-caste) as labor force by the development of their moral, physic, intellect and work. This way, it is expected from the school, such patriotic mission: to develop the little native men intelligence in order to make them intuitively aware of “the most appropriate hygiene practices, defensive attitudes against insects and harmful animals, and the advantages of wearing shoes and utilizing improved tools for better handiwork”. With such school, educational authorities believed that rural hygiene would find its best supporter. This communication intends to discuss proposals of medical-scholar inspections presented during Cesar Prieto Martinez’s public management, taking into consideration the specificities of the population and the objectives of the school nationalization aimed by the State. What characteristics and developments guide medical hygienist discourse in relation to such reality, which had not the “white becoming” as its main question?

Keywords : Hygiene; School; Medical-Scholar.

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